Hi All
I had written months back that I couldn't get onto most google sites, like search, maps, but I could connect to drive, gmail and others. since many sites use google I'd get a timed out error. I checked w/ google support, cybermesa, every forum I could find. After many efforts I checked /etc/hosts (should have sooner but there are so many config files that none of the forums even mentioned it.) I run a couple virtual machines, one being FreeBsd, and could connect to all google on those. Then that stopped too. Looking in /etc/hosts I found:

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1    ubuntu-laptop    localhost.localdomain    localhost
::1    ubuntu-laptop    localhost6.localdomain6    localhost6
127.0.1.1    ubuntu-laptop

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
# Inside /etc/hosts on your Host
#192.168.56.101 BrianFreeBSD.home.local www.google.com anyother.fakesite.com

and found the last line-very weird! I commented it out and everything is back to normal. I'm wondering how that entry ever made it into the file though?

Best to all the Gluggers!

Brian

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